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Ideas for 'Politics', 'From Stimulus to Science' and 'Critique of Practical Reason'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
18235 Only human reason can confer value on our choices [Kant, by Korsgaard]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
6196 People cannot come to morality through feeling, because morality must not be sensuous [Kant]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
2807 Some say slavery is unnatural and created by convention, and is therefore forced, and unjust [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
18675 Kant may rate two things as finally valuable: having a good will, and deserving happiness [Orsi on Kant]
22007 An autonomous agent has dignity [Würde], which has absolute worth [Kant, by Pinkard]
18234 The good will is unconditionally good, because it is the only possible source of value [Kant, by Korsgaard]
6192 Good or evil cannot be a thing, but only a maxim of action, making the person good or evil [Kant]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
22582 Spirit [thumos] is the capacity by which we love [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
2810 Selfishness is wrong not because it is self-love, but because it is excessive [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
22555 The function of good men is to confer benefits [Aristotle]
6197 Morality involves duty and respect for law, not love of the outcome [Kant]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
6193 Our happiness is all that matters, not as a sensation, but as satisfaction with our whole existence [Kant]
1452 Happiness is the condition of a rational being for whom everything goes as they wish [Kant]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
1454 Morality is not about making ourselves happy, but about being worthy of happiness [Kant]